The Steel Flea. by MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley. LYESKOFF,…

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~ The Steel Flea.

Boston Privately Printed for the Company of Gentlemen Adventurers 1916

One of 300 copies, this copy unnumbered. Translated from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood. Printed by Updike at The Merrymount Press. Title page ornaments. 8vo., [13 x 20.5 cms], original half black cloth over blue paper boards, gilt lettering to spine, fore and lower edges uncut. In later cream paper wrapper, hand written titles to spine. A touch toned along edges of boards, some minor rubbing to extremities, offsetting to endpapers, a good copy.

Styled as a Russian folk tale, this story is an uproarious account of a Russian gun-maker seeking technical and artistic mastery over his British counterparts.

Smith 439.
Stock ref: 8188
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